, 1887-07-20
TOwN TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked VI
Throughout the City.

The highest temperature yesterday was
75o, the lowest $40. At Denver the high
est was TAO, at Omaha Sc.
Officer Dietrich last evening arrested
two men who were stealing lumber from
cars in the west end of the Union Pacific
yards.
During the present month the police
have made e~ighty-fve arrests and the
prisoners have contributed 1T days labor
to the city.
VIM. Miersen was buried from the
county hospital yesterday afternoon. Rev.
Beckman, of the German Lutheran
church, oficiated.
The insurance adiusters have settled
with Cowhick l. Whitcomb for the losses
occasioned by the recent fire in their Six
tenth street store.
3. L. Meyer registers righteous roar
because unprincipled parties are SEEMING
the mountain trout grown in Horse creek
by himself and neighbors.
Thomas A. Kent has received a war
eanty deed from the Union Pacific for lot 5
in block 164 and lots 5 and 6 in block los.
The consideration was S688.
Geo. W. Nellis, the across the CONT
nent bicyclist, was at Ogden, Utah, last
Monday. He is in good trim and still
covers from fifty to eighty miles per day.
Now is the appointed time for the rem
dition of a frst-class entertainment at the
opera house by local talent. No travelling
attraction will appear here for several
weeks.
Sheriff Sterling, of Albany county,
was in the city a short time yesterday.
He was enroute to Jacksonville, ILL.,, in
charge of a Laramie lunatic named Aug.
Osterman.
Two companies of soldiers returned
from Natural Fort yesterday, two COM
panies are now camping there, but will
return Sunday, when three more COM
panies will leave for that point.
The brand committee held a busy and
not very fruitful session yesterday. Ev-
eryone desires a two-letter brand, and
nearly all possible marks of this character
have already been pressed into service.
Carr, the star burglar, told a gentleman
in this city that during the last tive years
he had lost over $4,000 gambling. If
his Cheyenne engagement is any criterion
to the gentleman's actions elsewhere, his
statement is highly probable.
A drunken individual attempted to
take possession of Germania hall last
evening. After being soundly thrashed
by a gentleman whom he insulted, the
holy terror" as he appropriately styled
himself, was arrested and placed in the
city jail.
Rev. A. w. Williams assisted The pas
tor of the south side church last Sunday
evening in a short but very pleasant yes.
per service. The Lords supper was
eommemorated and five persons were re-
ceiyed into the church. Two were bap-
tized.
Several hundred graders are working
toward Wyoming on the Colorado Mid
land railway ninety miles south of Raw
Inns. The company has surveyors scat
tered all over the West, and is very liable
to tap the western portion of the territory
before winter.
Fred. w. Ransom, who has Just been
appointed agent of the Royal Neither
lands Steam Navigation company, will
have something interesting to say to the
readers Of THE LEADER tomorrow on
the subject of an excursion to points of
interest in Europe.
Industry is a highly commemorate vir.
tue and one often encountered in unex-
pected quarters. A soldier who is con-
fined in the city Jail yesterday insisted
that he be allowed to labor on the Evans
street grade, saying. that he preferred
shoveling dirt to remaining idle.
w. W. Corey. of Corey Bros, Chey-
enne d Burlington contractors, came up
from Denver last evening. Corey Bros.
have a forty mile grading contract, be-
ginning at a point sixty miles from this
city and proceeding eastward. The job
will be completed by September 10.
Attorney Rowan finished his argument
In the Tumble new trial case at 1890
o'clock yesterday morning, and was fol-
lowed by Judge Peck. who spoke until
noon. delivering one of the most brilliant,
logical and eloquent arguments ever
heard in Wyoming. Prosecuting Attor-
ney w. r. Stoll will speak in behalf of
the territory this morning.
The plat of the Cheyenne & Burling-
ton railroad was returned to the local
land Office yesterday from the department
OF the interior, with the secretary's APP
proval. The road will enter Wyoming
at a point on the Colorado line one mile
east Of Grow creek, and crosses the
Union Pacific a mile southeast &C. the
southeast corner of the city limits.
Tired and weary limbs are siren ctheped